Can you drink red wine with liver disease?

Patients with liver disease are not recommended to drink red wine, because whether it is red wine, white wine, or beer, all contain a certain amount of alcohol, although the content is relatively low, but the same will increase the burden on the liver, and the product of alcohol metabolism is acetaldehyde, which can cause secondary damage to the liver. Alcohol will have obvious stimulation to the human body, especially the gastrointestinal tract, destroying one’s gastric mucosa and affecting the secretion of gastric juices, resulting in some gastrointestinal symptoms. In the case of patients with cirrhosis, the presence of esophagogastric-fundus varices may also induce serious complications such as upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Therefore, patients with liver disease cannot, and are not advised to, drink red wine, and need to pay attention to a healthy lifestyle, with a light diet, early to bed and early to rise.